Blueprint

Andrew Ackerman

Managing Director, Urban Tech

Dreamit Ventures
Salman Ahmad

CEO and Co-Founder

Mosaic
Tom Arnold

CEO & Co-Founder

Gridium
Arie Barendrecht

CEO & Founder

WiredScore
Gary Beasley

CEO & Co-Founder

Roofstock
Robyn Beavers

CEO & Co-Founder

Blueprint Power
Jeffrey Berman

General Partner

Camber Creek
Sean Black

CEO & Co-Founder

BlackRE
Matt Boras

Senior Vice President

RXR
Steve Boyack

COO, Student Living

CA Ventures
Madhu Chamarty

CEO & Co-Founder

BeyondHQ
Alex Chatzieleftheriou

CEO & Co-Founder

Blueground
Vik Chawla

Partner

Fifth Wall
Jit Kee Chin

Chief Data & Innovation Officer

Suffolk Construction
Erez Cohen

CEO & Co-Founder

Knock
Travis Connors

General Partner & Co-Founder

Building Ventures
Calvin Cooper

CEO & Co-Founder

Rhove
Courtney Cooper

Principal

Alate Partners
Joseph Daniels

CEO & Founder

Etopia
Khalid David

CEO & Founder

TracFlo
Adam Demuyakor

Managing Partner

Wilshire Lane Partners
Jon Dishotsky

CEO & Co-Founder

Starcity
Brad Dockser

CEO & Co-Founder

Green Generation
Alexey Dubov

COO & Co-Founder

Mighty Buildings
Dana Dunford

CEO

Hemlane
Franco Faraudo

Co-Founder

Propmodo
Daniel Fetner

Principal

Alpaca VC
Andrew Flint

Co-Founder

Occupier
Jason Fudin

CEO & Co-Founder

WhyHotel
Gonzalo Galindo

Head

CEMEX Ventures
Thais Galli

Head of Innovation

Tishman Speyer
Rahul Gandhi

CEO & Co-Founder

Makespace
Dave Garland

Managing Partner

Second Century Ventures
Melanie Gersper

COO

Asia Capital Real Estate
Chase Gilbert

CEO & Founder

Built Technologies
Mark Gilbreath

CEO & Founder

LiquidSpace
Steve Glenn

CEO

Plant Prefab
Justin Goldman

CEO & Co-Founder

Renofi
Brad Greiwe

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Fifth Wall
Florian Hagenbuch

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Loft
Brad Hargreaves

CEO & Founder

Common
Scott Harmon

CEO & Co-Founder

Swivel
Alec Hartman

CEO & Co-Founder

Welcome Homes
Nellie Hayat

Head of Workplace Transformation

VergeSense
Jamie Hodari

CEO & Co-Founder

Industrious
Merritt Hummer

Partner

Bain Capital Ventures
Rahul Idnani

President

Dream Equity Partners
Zander Isaacson

CEO & Co-Founder

Xeal
Katelyn Johnson

Managing Director

American Family Ventures
Jakob Jørgenson

Head of Technology

COBOD International
Jeevan Kalanithi

CEO

OpenSpace
Matt Knight

Founder

PropTech Angel Group
Micah Kotch

Managing Director

URBAN-X
Katharine Lau

CEO & Co-Founder

Stuf
Rosanna Lawn

Global Brand & Strategic Partnerships Director

Etopia
Nathan Levin

Partner, Venture Investments

First American
Shragie Lichtenstein

CEO & Co-Founder

FLEX
Ethan Lieber

CEO & Co-Founder

Latchel
Diana Lind

Author

"Brave New Home"
Andrew Luong

CEO & Co-Founder

Doorvest
Michael Mahan

Managing Director

Stanley Ventures
Moiz Malik

CEO

Nooklyn
Michael Mandel

CEO & Co-Founder

Compstak
Stefan Martinovic

VP, Data Partnerships

Placer
Cindy McLaughlin

CEO

Envelope
John Meadows

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Bowery Valuation
Will Mitchell

CEO & Co-Founder

Rabbet
Felicite Moorman

CEO & Co-Founder

Stratis IoT
Neda Navab

President - East Region

Compass
Alex Nicoll

Reporter

Business Insider
Alex Niehenke

Partner

Scale VP
Jordan Nof

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Tusk Venture Partners
Will O'Donnell

Managing Partner

Prologis Ventures
Robert O'Neill

CEO & Co-Founder

Haven Coliving
Clelia Peters

Venture Partner

Bain Capital Ventures
Lisa Picard

CEO & President

EQ Office
Momei Qu

Senior Vice President

PSP Growth
Brian Ringley

Construction Tech Manager

Boston Dynamics
Clinton Robinson

CEO

Lane
Eric Roseman

Managing Partner

Lincoln Property Company Ventures
Rick Rudman

Chairman, CEO, President & Co-Founder

Curbio
Mike Rudoy

CEO & Co-Founder

Jetty
Marcela Sapone

CEO & Co-Founder

Alfred
Rich Sarkis

Founder & Executive Chairman

Reonomy
Paraag Sarva

CEO & Co-Founder

Rhino
Jeff Saul

CEO & Co-Founder

Nativ
Jonathan Scherr

CEO & Co-Founder

Juno
Zak Schwarzman

General Partner

Metaprop
Tyler Scriven

CEO & Co-Founder

Saltbox
James Segil

President & Co-Founder

Openpath
Hemant Shah

CEO & Co-Founder

Archipelago
Max Simkoff

CEO & Founder

Doma
Daniel Spiegel

VP & Managing Director

Coldwell Banker Commercial
Bill Staniford

CEO

Qira
Steve Van Till

CEO & Founder

Brivo
Thomas Walle

CEO & Co-Founder

Unacast
Nima Wedlake

Principal

Thomvest
Greg West

CEO

ZOM Living

Andrew Ackerman

Managing Director, Urban Tech

Dreamit Ventures

Andrew is a recovering consultant turned serial entrepreneur, startup mentor and angel investor. He is the Managing Director of Dreamit Urbantech, investing in Proptech and Construction Tech. Andrew has written for Fortune, Forbes, Propmodo, CREtech, Builders Online, Architect Magazine, Multifamily Executive, AlleyWatch, Edsurge, The 74 Million, et. al. Andrew founded two companies and has a keen appreciation for how hard it is to build a successful startup, even under the best of circumstances.

Salman Ahmad

CEO and Co-Founder

Mosaic

Salman Ahmad is the CEO and co-founder of Mosaic, a construction technology company focused on making homebuilding scalable. By standardizing the process (homebuilding) and not the product (homes), Mosaic is delivering places people love and creating better communities. Salman holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, focusing on Programming Language Design for Service-Oriented Systems, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University focusing on Human Computer Interaction, and a BSE in Computer Systems Engineering from Arizona State University.  He also has 20 technical publications and patents in the areas of software systems, programming languages, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and sensor hardware. With a passion for construction, software, and computer science, Salman co-founded Mosaic to build places people love and make them widely available.

Tom Arnold

CEO & Co-Founder

Gridium

Tom Arnold is co-founder and CEO of Gridium. Prior to Gridium, Tom Arnold was the Vice President of Energy Efficiency at EnerNOC, and cofounder at TerraPass. Tom has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. When he isn’t thinking about the future of buildings, he enjoys riding his bike and chasing after his two daughters.

Arie Barendrecht

CEO & Founder

WiredScore

Arie is the founder and CEO of WiredScore, the pioneer behind the international WiredScore certification system that evaluates and distinguishes best-in-class Internet connectivity in commercial buildings. Prior to founding WiredScore, Arie worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in New York City where he focused on the technology and media industries. Arie holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA and BS in Business and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Gary Beasley

CEO & Co-Founder

Roofstock

Gary is CEO of Roofstock, a leading real estate investment marketplace which he co-founded in 2015. Gary has spent most of his career building businesses in the real estate, hospitality and tech sectors. After earning his BA in economics from Northwestern, Gary ventured west to earn his MBA from Stanford, where he caught the entrepreneurial bug and still serves as a regular guest lecturer. Previously Gary was instrumental in acquiring and integrating more than $800 million of resort properties for KSL Resorts, and spent five years as CFO of online brokerage pioneer ZipRealty, which he led through its successful IPO in 2004. Gary also served as CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, then the second largest boutique hotel management company in the country. Immediately before starting Roofstock, Gary led one of the largest single-family rental platforms in the U.S. through its IPO as co-CEO of Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust, now part of Invitation Homes.

Robyn Beavers

CEO & Co-Founder

Blueprint Power

Robyn has a track record of taking sophisticated climate and clean energy-related technical concepts and transforming them into commercially-oriented strategies that lead to impact, scale and results. She began her career in 2004 at Google in Mt View, CA, reporting directly to the co-founders working on strategic initiatives as they took the company public. Robyn went on to found Google's first business unit focused on incorporating clean energy generation across the company's global operations. In this capacity, she oversaw and catalyzed Google’s first clean energy initiatives, including large-scale clean energy procurement for data centers and the development and installation of a 1.7MW rooftop solar installation at the Mountain View HQ. Since then she has built, invested in, and raised $50M+ for new ventures and programs for Vestas Wind A/S in Copenhagen, Dean Kamen at DEKA R&D, and NRG Energy. Most recently she was an executive at Lennar Corp, where she built the firm’s first corporate venture platform while incubating Blueprint Power Technologies. Today, Robyn Beavers is the CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Power, a NYC-based real estate tech company that turns buildings into revenue-generating clean power plants. Robyn was named EY’s NY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2020. Robyn holds both a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.

Jeffrey Berman

General Partner

Camber Creek

Jeffrey Berman has more than two decades of experience and deeply rooted relationships in the start-up, real estate and venture capital ecosystems. Jeffrey is a General Partner at the world’s first proptech venture capital firm, Camber Creek, where he sources deal flow, leads due diligence, makes investment decisions and serves on the boards of numerous portfolio companies. Prior to Camber Creek, Jeffrey was a Principal at one of the Washington DC area’s largest privately held real estate development and management firms where he was involved with a number of large - scale repositioning projects such as University Town Center & Downtown at the Gardens. Jeffrey is also an active early stage investor backing more than a dozen startups including Side, Flex, Oxygen, Jackpocket, Kindbody and Rappi. He is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Sean Black

CEO & Co-Founder

BlackRE

Sean is the Co-Founder & CEO of BLACK, a tech-powered and cloud based CRE brokerage platform based in NYC. Prior to founding BLACK, Sean served as EVP of Real Estate and Enterprise Sales at WeWork, He has been involved in millions of square feet of commercial real estate leasing transactions over his 20 year tenure, and has worked at many of the world’s largest commercial brokerage firms including Cushman & Wakefield, JLL, Newmark, and Grubb & Ellis.

Madhu Chamarty

CEO & Co-Founder

BeyondHQ

Madhu Chamarty is the co-founder and CEO of BeyondHQ, a startup that helps companies plan and scale distributed teams. An engineer and math nerd at heart, he has 15+ yrs of startup experience in Silicon Valley, as an early employee and co-founder at 3 high-growth B2B startups in digital media (Adify - Cox acq. @ $300MM), employee communities (Dynamic Signal), and geospatial analytics (Descartes Labs). He has scaled sales & support teams globally, in both colocated and remote formats. He grew up in a fully distributed family across 4 countries, so believes he was destined to build BeyondHQ even before he knew it.

Alex Chatzieleftheriou

CEO & Co-Founder

Blueground

Alex Chatzielftheriou is a Greek entrepreneur and CEO and co-founder of Blueground — a real estate tech company founded in 2013. Blueground provides a network of fully-furnished, move-in ready apartments in 14 cities across the globe for stays of a month, a year, or longer. Having lived and worked in more than 15 cities around the world, Alex sought to provide business and leisure travelers with a hassle-free way to find places that feel like home — to show up and start living from day one. Along the way, Alex disrupted the traditional lease model, enabling flexible living to encourage travel and exploration of the world and its cultures while providing a place to feel "grounded" and call home.

Jit Kee Chin

Chief Data & Innovation Officer

Suffolk Construction

Jit Kee Chin is the Chief Data & Innovation Officer and Executive Vice President at Suffolk. Ms. Chin is responsible for leveraging big data and advanced analytics to improve the organization’s core business. Ms. Chin is also responsible for helping to position Suffolk to achieve its vision of transforming the construction experience while working closely with the company’s Innovation and Strategy teams to fundamentally reinvent the future of construction in the digital age.

Prior to her role at Suffolk, Ms. Chin spent 10 years with management consulting firm McKinsey and Company where she counseled senior executives on strategic, commercial and advanced analytics topics. Most recently, she was a Senior Expert in Analytics in McKinsey’s Boston office where she specialized in the design and implementation of end- to-end analytics transformations. Prior to that role, Ms. Chin was an Associate Principal in McKinsey’s London office where she helped organizations drive multi-year business transformations and change programs and developing strategies for profitable growth.

Erez Cohen

CEO & Co-Founder

Knock

After 12 years in the cyber security red ocean, Erez transitioned into the multifamily real estate space where technology still feels like magic. Knock's mission is to automate the leasing process and to create a superior, fast, and cost-efficient experience for renters and owners alike.

Travis Connors

General Partner & Co-Founder

Building Ventures

Travis brings to Building Ventures a lifelong interest in design and architecture, a boundless optimism for the positive impact technology can have, and a passion for helping startups to launch and grow. At Building Ventures, Travis co-leads the Investment Committee. He currently manages the firm’s involvement with Smartvid.io, EnvoyThere and GoContractor as a member of the Board of Directors. In addition, he works closely with the teams at Blokable, Dandelion, Join Digital and Measurabl.

Calvin Cooper

CEO & Co-Founder

Rhove

Calvin Cooper is the co-founder and CEO of Rhove, a company expanding access for everyone to invest in real estate via a mobile app with no account minimums or income requirements. By democratizing real estate finance, deal sponsors raise capital with no headache, and Main Street investors get the opportunity to own the places we live, work, and play. Rhove raises capital from the public and invests as a single entity, eliminating every barrier to bringing previously unattainable deals to the market. Prior to Rhove, Calvin was a venture capitalist investing in fintech, blockchain, proptech and smart city technology companies.

Courtney Cooper

Principal

Alate Partners

Courtney is a principal at Alate Partners, where she helps identify and scale promising real estate technology companies, provides market analysis and due diligence, and manages relationships with industry partners. She has spent nearly 10 years in real estate technology and operations. Prior to Alate, she led innovation and business transformation initiatives at Dream and Great-West Life. Courtney is a board observer at Lane, Branch, and Eden as well as the co-founder of Proptech Collective.

Joseph Daniels

CEO & Founder

Etopia

Joseph Daniels founded Project Etopia in 2015 at the age of 23 and is the CEO of Project Etopia Group. Motivated with a passion to make a difference his objective is to build the smart connected eco cities of the future that work towards solving the global housing crisis, whilst having a positive impact on climate change. He aims to do this by combining various energy, construction and intelligent technologies, through invention or collaboration, to build the highest performing buildings. His ambition was fueled by the lack of security he faced as a young man and continues to drive his motivation to create a better tomorrow. Joe has been recognized across various industries for his innovative approach to technology and real estate, most recently he received the accolade of Forbes 30 under 30 in the manufacturing and industry category, as well as a feature in the United Nations 75th anniversary book for his contribution to climate change.

Khalid David

CEO & Founder

TracFlo

Khalid was born in a construction family and came from three generations of carpenters. He started his career running a subcontracting company with his father and uncle before joining a major firm in New York at Turner Construction. While at Turner he led an innovation team that built internal software to serve construction managers. It was on this team that Khalid will meet the head developer and his future co-founder, Jake. Khalid eventually left Turner with the blessing of the senior VP who wrote his letter of recommendation to MIT. While at Sloan, a lot of the learning that took place while at Turner will be commercialized into what would become TracFlo.

Adam Demuyakor

Managing Partner

Wilshire Lane Partners

Prior to founding Wilshire Lane Partners, Adam worked as a venture capital investor at Fifth Wall Ventures as well as Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to venture, Adam worked as an investor on Wall Street both working as a hedge fund investor at The Carlyle Group and before that, in the Real Estate Group at Morgan Stanley in New York City. Adam graduated with High Honors from Harvard College and also has an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also a Board Member for 9 Dots, an education non-profit focused on providing subsidized computer science education to children from underprivileged backgrounds.

Jon Dishotsky

CEO & Co-Founder

Starcity

Jon grew up in Palo Alto, where his family established a cohousing home with Stanford students to help make ends meet. He graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor's in Managerial Economics and spent 10 years at Cushman & Wakefield. He did over 3M square feet of commercial real estate transactions worth $1B in aggregate value over his career.

Brad Dockser

CEO & Co-Founder

Green Generation

Brad Dockser is GreenGen’s CEO/Co-Founder. GreenGen transforms the world's built environment through visionary innovation and solutions by integrating energy, real estate, technology, and capital markets to Operate in the Green. Brad was Co-Founder/Managing Director for Starwood Capital Group’s international operations; Principal with MacFarlane Partners; and began his career at JMB Realty and CRI. Brad received an A.B. cum laude Economics and MBA from Harvard University. Brad serves on the global advisory board for ULI’s Center for Sustainability and Economic Performance. He is Chair of ULI’s Redevelopment and Reuse Product Council and was the founder of ULI’s Sustainability Initiative in DC.

Alexey Dubov

COO & Co-Founder

Mighty Buildings

Alexey Dubov is an accomplished innovator, entrepreneur, executive, and is chief operating officer, and co-founder at Mighty Buildings, a construction technology company creating beautiful, affordable, and sustainable homes using 3D printing, robotics, and automation.

Dana Dunford

CEO

Hemlane

Dana Dunford is the CEO of Hemlane, a technology-enabled property management platform. She is a strong advocate of purchasing properties anywhere, as the best investments are not typically in your backyard. She supports real estate investors in setting up the most intelligent process to manage rentals from a distance, while connecting them with local, licensed professionals. In 2018, Dana was named one of the top 20 women leaders in commercial real estate tech. Dana previously worked at Apple on their worldwide financial planning and analysis team and at Nest in business development. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Franco Faraudo

Co-Founder

Propmodo

Franco Faraudo has an MBA in entrepreneurship and has worked with companies on their branding and content strategy. He has worked in real estate as an agent, manager, and investor. He writes about the intersection between the physical and digital world and is a co-founder of Propmodo.

Daniel Fetner

Principal

Alpaca VC

Daniel Fetner’s background spans traditional Real Estate Private Equity & Development as well as Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship. At Alpaca Daniel is exclusively focused on investing across the PropTech landscape and also heads up both our Field Study & MBA programs. Prior to Alpaca, Daniel worked at J.P. Morgan and Cushman & Wakefield. Daniel Graduated with an MBA from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Daniel serves as a Board Director at Trade Hounds and a Board Observer at Prevu, Doorkee, The Guild & Diamond Age.

Andrew Flint

Co-Founder

Occupier

Andrew Flint is the Co-Founder of Occupier, a Real Estate Success platform for commercial tenants and tenant rep brokers. He has 10 years of experience in NYC commercial real estate and 9+ years at the forefront of commercial real estate technology. Andrew realized the need for modern technology in Commercial Real Estate, experiencing the inefficiencies of the industry firsthand while at JLL. In 2012 he joined VTS as the Head of Business Development after being an angel investor and first non-founder user of the platform.

Jason Fudin

CEO & Co-Founder

WhyHotel

Jason Fudin is the CEO and Co-Founder of WhyHotel, based in Washington D.C. WhyHotel is a venture-backed start-up that operates “turn-key, pop-up hotels” out of the vacancy of newly built luxury apartments during the lease-up phase. Prior to WhyHotel, Jason was the VP of Strategic Initiatives at Vornado Realty Trust where he worked on developing innovative commercial real estate concepts for the organization. Over his career, Jason has managed commercial real estate development projects valued at over $2 billion and has worked in real estate development, acquisitions, and capital markets. He has his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Management from McGill University and his M.S. in Finance and Real Estate from American University.

Gonzalo Galindo

Head

CEMEX Ventures

Gonzalo Galindo has been in charge for the Innovation process and Head of Cemex Ventures, the Open Innovation and Venture Capital fund of Cemex since its inception almost four years ago. He has 20+ years of experience in Cemex in diverse areas like Business Development where he was responsible of acquiring and integrating assets in the Philippines, Taiwan, Egypt and the assets across all Europe. He also managed Cemex operations in the UK and USA East. Before Cemex, he spent a couple of years as Head of Planning at Frito Lay Mexico and spent 6 years as a consultant at Mckinsey and Co In Mexico, the US, Brazil and Australia.

Chase Gilbert

CEO & Founder

Built Technologies

Chase Gilbert is the founder and CEO of Built Technologies. Chase and his co-founders formed Built in 2014 after living through the frustrations of navigating construction loans and recognizing there had to be a better way with technology. Today Built's platform powers the residential and commercial construction lending divisions of over 100 banks and also helps thousands of developers and contractors navigate lien waivers and accelerate construction payments.

Mark Gilbreath

CEO & Founder

LiquidSpace

Mark is the CEO and "Skipper" of LiquidSpace the on-demand office marketplace and workplace management platform, with a mission to harness the power of flexible space to transform the workplace experience, giving employees the freedom and choices to work from anywhere. In getting from here to there, Mark would rather pedal than drive.

Justin Goldman

CEO & Co-Founder

Renofi

Justin Goldman is the CoFounder & CEO of RenoFi, the world's first renovation lending platform empowering credit unions, banks & non-bank lenders to offer the best in class renovation financing solutions to their home owning customers.

Brad Greiwe

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Fifth Wall

Brad Greiwe is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision.

Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brad co-founded Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH), a multi-billion dollar owner and operator of single-family rental properties originally backed by The Blackstone Group. As CTO, he positioned Invitation Homes as the dominant technology-forward brand in the single-family rental category, developing a proprietary technology stack to support the valuation, acquisition, rehabilitation, leasing, and professional management of over 80,000 homes in 17 major markets, serving 120,000 residents across the U.S.

Brad started his career in investment banking at UBS in the real estate, lodging, and leisure group, where he tallied over $33 billion of M&A advisory work and $1 billion of debt and equity financing, including the sale of Hilton Hotels to The Blackstone Group for $26 billion—the largest hotel privatization in history. He then worked in real estate private equity at Tishman Speyer and Starwood Capital, where he executed over $30 billion of acquisitions, debt financing, and development projects.

Florian Hagenbuch

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Loft

Florian is the Founder and co-CEO of Loft, which is reinventing the process of buying and selling real estate in Latam by leveraging technology and data to transform painful and bureaucratic processes into simple experiences. Loft is backed by leading global fintech and proptech investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, QED, Thrive, Fifth Wall and Monashees and has raised more than $900M in debt and equity capital to date.

Previously, Florian co-founded Printi, Latam's leading online printing marketplace, having started the company in 2012, raising over $50M in equity and ultimately selling the business to US-based global online printing leader Vistaprint.

Nellie Hayat

Head of Workplace Transformation

VergeSense

Nellie Hayat is the Head of Workplace Transformation at VergeSense and the host of the Destination Workplace podcast. Previously she was a Real Estate & Workplace strategist at Stripe for 4 years supporting the company's hyper growth. At Stripe, she re-designed their workplace design guidelines to improve and unify the office experience across their global portfolio of offices, oversaw the construction and openings of offices around the world and led sustainability initiatives.

Jamie Hodari

CEO & Co-Founder

Industrious

Jamie Hodari is the CEO and Co-founder of Industrious, the largest premium workplace provider in the U.S. Under his leadership, Industrious has grown to over 95 locations across more than 50 cities, achieving the best unit economics in the industry, and pioneering the evolution to landlord partnerships over traditional leases. Prior to Industrious, Jamie was CEO of Kepler, a hedge fund analyst at Birch Run Capital, a corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, and a reporter for the Times of India.

Merritt Hummer

Partner

Bain Capital Ventures

Merritt joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2018. She focuses on growth equity investments in the fintech and proptech sectors. Merritt is involved in all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, due diligence, transaction execution and portfolio company support. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Merritt was a growth equity investor at Goldman Sachs. Merritt began her career as a management consultant at Bain & Company in New York. Merritt is a CFA charterholder. Merritt graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science in engineering, and from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Rahul Idnani

President

Dream Equity Partners

Rahul Idnani is the President of Dream Equity Partners, the private real estate arm of Dream Unlimited, one of Canada’s leading real estate companies with $10 billion of assets under management in North America and Europe. Prior to Dream, Mr. Idnani was formerly the Global Chief Operating Officer for Nuveen Real Estate which has US$128 billion of assets under management. At Nuveen Real Estate, Mr. Idnani oversaw US$90 billion of assets under management across various property types and investment strategies for the firm’s institutional and retail clients. Prior to this, he held senior leadership positions at TIAA and was instrumental in the US$6.25 billion acquisition of Nuveen Investments and build-out of its global real assets platform, including the R$1.1 billion Brazil farmland acquisition and associated local investment platform bolt-on.

Prior to TIAA, Mr. Idnani previously held leadership roles at ING Group, where he was deeply involved in restructuring the retirement and investment management business lines as well as preparing the company for the Voya Financial IPO in 2013. He began his career in 2007, as an investment analyst at Credit Suisse Alternative Investments focused on private equity secondaries and senior secured loans.

Zander Isaacson

CEO & Co-Founder

Xeal

Zander Isaacson is the co-founder and CEO of Xeal, an LA-based tech startup that has developed a new connectivity protocol that enables smart devices to function entirely without the internet and IT infrastructure. From access control to digital payments to over-the-air updates, Xeal's core IP enables any smart device to be operated by users offline with zero network fees, 100% uptime, and 50X faster processing speed. While the patent-pending connectivity software has myriads of applications, the company has focused on building it first for the rapidly growing electric vehicle charger market.

Katelyn Johnson

Managing Director

American Family Ventures

Katelyn Johnson is Managing Director at American Family Ventures, where she focuses on early stage B2B enterprise solutions in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. She has provided mentorship to TechStars, Harvard Business School, MIT, and MassChallenge, and is Executive Director of the Horn Program VC Council at the University of Delaware. An engineer by training, Katelyn is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

Jakob Jørgenson

Head of Technology

COBOD International

Since 2013, Jakob has been working exclusively with 3D printing — and since 2015 with 3D printing in the construction sector. He was part of the team that built the first 3D-printed house in Europe, and now pushing the technology out to construction sites all over the world.

Matt Knight

Founder

PropTech Angel Group

Matt Knight is a PropTech investor focused on commercial and multifamily technology. He is the founder of the largest angel group in the world focused exclusively on technology in real estate, the PropTech Angel Group. He also actively works with a few institutional owners of real estate on building an investment and piloting strategy around emerging technologies.

Matt was formerly a General Partner at Shadow Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on construction and real estate technology. Matt was responsible for capital raising and formation as well as deal sourcing and underwriting. During his time at Shadow, Matt also built an incubator, an accelerator, and an annual event known as Shadow Summit. Matt often speaks and writes about emerging trends or false narratives in PropTech via The Vertical newsletter.

Prior to Shadow, Matt had a decade-long career in institutional real estate and was involved in more than $1B of commercial transactions. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson College and splits his time between Atlanta and San Francisco.

Micah Kotch

Managing Director

URBAN-X

Micah Kotch serves as the Managing Director for URBAN-X: the accelerator for startups reimagining city life built by MINI and Urban Us. URBAN-X provides critical early-stage support and resources for proptech innovators including Versatile Natures, Blueprint Power, Toggle, Avvir, and Sapient Industries. Micah previously served as the Director of NY Prize and Strategic Advisor for Innovation at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), where was responsible for the design and execution of the nation’s first community microgrid competition and worked to transform the electric utility business model and help commercialize new clean energy technology.

Katharine Lau

CEO & Co-Founder

Stuf

Katharine Lau is CEO and Co-Founder of Stuf, a modern self-storage company that partners with landlords to monetize and operate underutilized real estate. She is passionate about reimagining the traditional built world into hospitality-driven and tech-enabled experiences. Prior to Stuf, Katharine led all supply side growth at Industrious as VP of Real Estate, achieving over 10x growth and pioneering asset-light agreements in the coworking industry. She has also worked at Equinox, PGIM Real Estate (Prudential) and L&L Holding Company.

Rosanna Lawn

Global Brand & Strategic Partnerships Director

Etopia

Fascinated by people and the planet, Rosanna has a passion to educate others in sustainability whilst creating environments for positive disruption. Rosanna co-founded CREation Property Network, an award-winning, not-for-profit, organization focussed on inclusion for young professionals, and London Development Company, YOO Living, as well as being RICS accredited. Rosanna now merges her desire for change with industry awareness to drive the external Etopia message, aligning policy, brand and partnerships to bridge the non-market and market environments in a way that is interpretable for consumers.

Ethan Lieber

CEO & Co-Founder

Latchel

Ethan comes from a product management background having built social apps, fitness apps, and lead generation applications. Prior to Latchel, Ethan built products connecting homeowners to contractors for renovations and remodels.

Diana Lind

Author

"Brave New Home"

Diana Lind is a writer and urban policy specialist. Her book, BRAVE NEW HOME: OUR FUTURE IN SMARTER, SIMPLER, HAPPIER HOUSING was published in October 2020. Diana has worked at Architectural Record magazine, Next City, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently the Executive Director of the Arts + Business Council for Greater Philadelphia and housing fellow at NewCities.

Andrew Luong

CEO & Co-Founder

Doorvest

Andrew Luong is CEO & Co-Founder of Doorvest, a venture-backed startup democratizing financial security for all. Andrew is also a real estate investor, Realtor, and mortgage loan officer. With a passion for all things technology and personal finance, Andrew created Doorvest to enable everyone to access to financial security through investing in the $3 trillion single-family rental market.

Michael Mahan

Managing Director

Stanley Ventures

As Managing Director at Stanley Ventures, Mike is responsible for identifying innovation that is strategically relevant to Stanley Black & Decker and its Global Tools & Storage business unit. He previously worked at startups in the Healthcare and Banking sectors for over 9 years prior to joining Stanley Ventures in 2016 upon its founding. Mike is based out of Atlanta, GA and his primary regional focus for Stanley Ventures is the Southeast and Midwest.

Moiz Malik

CEO

Nooklyn

Moiz has worked every job at Nooklyn. Starting as a Nooklyn customer, Moiz worked in engineering, design and finance. He was born in Pakistan and raised in New York City.

Cindy McLaughlin

CEO

Envelope

Cindy is CEO of Envelope, a real estate acquisitions analysis company that uses zoning- and AI-driven software to search for, visualize, and run scenarios on urban real estate development potential. Prior to Envelope, Cindy held CEO and President roles in a range of technology companies, from services-tech to prison-tech. Cindy has an MBA from MIT/Sloan, spent 2 years in Congo as a Water/Sanitation volunteer for the US Peace Corps. She currently serves on the Boards of the Brooklyn Heights Association and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

John Meadows

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Bowery Valuation

Prior to co-founding Bowery, John worked at Leitner Group, now BBG, the largest independent appraisal firm in New York City. In his 4+ years there he valued over $3 billion of commercial property across all asset types. Frustrated with the antiquated process of appraising, but excited by the need for a better solution, he left to start Bowery with Noah and Cesar in June of 2015. John graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in US History.

Will Mitchell

CEO & Co-Founder

Rabbet

Will is the co-founder and CEO of Rabbet, a software platform helping real estate developers and lenders efficiently manage construction finances. After spending more than a decade in commercial real estate, he recognized the need for developers, lenders, equity partners and third-parties to control, centralize and collaborate on their construction finances is a centralized digital platform.

Felicite Moorman

CEO & Co-Founder

Stratis IoT

Felicite Moorman is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and former attorney with over twenty-five years of experience founding and building companies. She’s received EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award and has earned an international reputation as a go-to IoT industry expert, developing pioneering strategic partnerships and unprecedented technology strategies and initiatives in the Internet of Things.

Moorman is the CoFounder of STRATIS IoT a company that pioneers groundbreaking IoT development across the globe. STRATIS is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platformfor access, energy, and automation management and control for multifamily and student housing, as well as a Smart Cities Solution. In 2020 STRATIS IoT was acquired by RealPage Inc, the company continues to operate under the RealPage umbrella.

Neda Navab

President - East Region

Compass

The proud daughter of a real estate agent, Neda is focused on bringing Compass's mission to life across the Eastern United States. Prior to Compass Neda was the Director of Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs, the division of Google focused on real estate development for smart cities. She also spent years in the Bay Area working at high-growth technology companies. Neda started her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BA in Economics from Columbia University.

Alex Nicoll

Reporter

Business Insider

Alex is a reporter at Insider writing about real estate, the built world, and how technology and material conditions are changing the buildings we spend our time in. He's written about this world since the summer of 2019, and previously studied at the Columbia School of Journalism.

Jordan Nof

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Tusk Venture Partners

Jordan Nof is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Tusk Venture Partners L.P. and is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He has led many of the firm’s investments including Lemonade, Bird, and Sunday. He currently serves on the board of directors of Sunday, Alma, and Wheel.

Prior to Tusk Venture Partners, Jordan spent six years as a Director at Blackstone, where he focused on the development of the firm’s corporate venture capital portfolio. During that time, Jordan focused on investing in early-stage technology companies that could accelerate operations across Blackstone and the firm’s underlying portfolio companies. He led Blackstone’s first real estate technology investment and worked within the Innovations team to execute investments in financial technology and cyber-security startups.

Before joining Blackstone, Jordan spent four years in the institutional investment management division at AllianceBernstein. During that time, he worked with many of the firm’s largest global institutional sub-advisory relationships.

Robert O'Neill

CEO & Co-Founder

Haven Coliving

Robert is the co-founder of Haven Coliving, a health and wellness coliving community, and is responsible for running all facets of the business. Prior to Haven, Robert was the CEO of Quarry, a matching service for construction equipment. Robert started his career in JPMorgan’s Tech M&A group and worked in Montgomery & Co’s M&A group prior to entrepreneurship. He earned his BS in finance and accounting at SMU.

Lisa Picard

CEO & President

EQ Office

Lisa Picard is Chief Executive Officer & President at EQ Office, where she leads culture, vision and strategy for the company. She is passionate about curating great spaces that maximize human potential, particularly in this age of rapid automation and technological advancements. As CEO, Lisa drives the strategic direction for the organization, inspires her team to find creative solutions that challenge pas assumptions, and helps customers identify new pathways for success.

Momei Qu

Senior Vice President

PSP Growth

Momei Qu is a Senior Vice President at PSP Growth, the growth equity arm of PSP Partners, and leads the organization’s proptech and construction tech investments. Prior to PSP, Momei spent over a decade in venture capital, most recently at Baird Capital where she focused on healthcare and technology investments. Momei began her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. She has a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Board of The Goldie Initiative and on the Leadership Board of CRETech.

Rick Rudman

Chairman, CEO, President & Co-Founder

Curbio

Rick Rudman is CEO of Curbio and a proven technology CEO for both start-ups and public companies. Prior to co-founding Curbio, Rick was co-founder and CEO of Vocus, a SaaS PR and marketing solution that Rick ran from a start-up to over 1,500 employees, an IPO on the Nasdaq, 32 quarters as a public company and in 2014 an acquisition for close to half a billion dollars. Prior to Vocus, Rick spent time as a software engineer and later as a CPA.

Rick began his career in the United States Air Force, attending the USAF electronics training school and serving in a forward air combat unit supporting NATO. Over the years Rick has been recognized for his success including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for DC, Maryland’s HTC Entrepreneur of the Year and MD Governor’s Citation.

Mike Rudoy

CEO & Co-Founder

Jetty

Mike Rudoy is the co-founder and CEO of Jetty, the financial services platform for the rental real estate market. Jetty is on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and flexible. Mike started his career as a management consultant at the strategy firm Diamond Management & Technology Consultants. In 2009, Mike co-founded Big Live, a venture-backed live video platform. In 2014, Mike co-founded Breadhouse, a consultancy servicing high-growth start-ups. Mike graduated from Princeton University with a B.S. in International Politics.

Marcela Sapone

CEO & Co-Founder

Alfred

Marcela Sapone is the co-founder and CEO of Alfred. As CEO, Marcela leads the company in its mission to make help a universal utility in every home and redefine city living. Alongside her co-founder, Jessica Beck, she holds the distinction of presenting the first women-led company to win first prize at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield competition. She writes and speaks frequently on principled leadership, human-centered technology, and her commitment to being a steward of good jobs and meaningful work. One of the first founders in the sharing economy to advocate for fairly compensating service workers by hiring them as W-2 employees instead of freelance contractors, she has worked with the U.S. Department of Labor and the White House under the administration of President Barack Obama, as well as The Brookings Institute and The Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities and Financial Security program. Her writing has appeared in Forbes, Quartz, and Recode, among other publications.

Named one of Goldman Sachs’s “most intriguing entrepreneurs,” Marcela has been nominated for the Financial Times’ ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Award, included in Fast Company’s Most Creative People list, and featured as the face of Consumer Tech in Forbes 30 Under 30.

Paraag Sarva

CEO & Co-Founder

Rhino

Paraag Sarva is the CEO & Co-Founder of Rhino and a builder of products and services that give renters a more affordable way to live in the homes they want. Since its founding in 2016, Rhino has made it a mission to replace cash security deposits with low-cost, affordable insurance. The product is now offered in over 1 million homes across the United States.

Jeff Saul

CEO & Co-Founder

Nativ

Jeff Saul is the co-founder and co-CEO of Nativ, a leading enterprise software solution provider to the Commercial Real Estate Finance industry. At Nativ, Jeff has been intimately involved in all aspects of the company’s operations and strategic growth with a focus on business development, helping to scale the business from 2 to 20 employees today. He co-founded Nativ and their flagship software, Atlas in 2018 to help lenders better manage data and workflow after noticing the gap in the marketplace throughout his career at various financial institutions.

Before Nativ, Jeff held positions at various real estate private equity firms including, most recently, Starwood Capital, where he led the highest producing investment team at the firm and closed over $6 billion in loan investments across all asset classes with a focus on construction projects with highly structured capitalizations.

Jonathan Scherr

CEO & Co-Founder

Juno

Jonathan Scherr is the co-Founder and CEO of Juno, a vertically integrated real estate platform focused on bringing precision, sustainability, and quality design apartment development to cities around the world. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, his MBA from Harvard Business School and his MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He sits on Dartmouth’s Alumni council and loves skiing, backpacking, and watching The Great British Baking Show with his wife Kat at their home in San Francisco.

Tyler Scriven

CEO & Co-Founder

Saltbox

Tyler is the Founder & CEO of Saltbox, a venture-backed startup building co-warehousing workspace for the millions of entrepreneurs that operate in the world of physical commerce and need warehouse space but don’t want to surrender their expectations of modern flexibility, comfort, and convenience. Saltbox provides purpose-built, highly functional micro-warehousing facilities complemented by traditional co-working and community spaces that members can feel proud to call home. He also serves as Chairman of True Glory Brands, a leading e-commerce retailer of multicultural hair and beauty products.

James Segil

President & Co-Founder

Openpath

As the President of Openpath, James runs day-to-day operations across all business functions, corporate strategy, enterprise partnerships, and business development. A serial entrepreneur, James has built and sold three successful technology companies (EdgeCast Networks, KnowledgeBase and Virtualis) over the past 17 years. While at Edgecast, James helped to build the company’s global network to carry more than seven percent of global internet traffic. Prior to Edgecast, James built KnowledgeBase into a profitable, industry-leading company that was ranked by Forrester as the Industry Leader in eService. James received the E&Y's 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year award for the greater Los Angeles area, is an investor in and advisor to tech startups and VC/PE funds, and is active in various community and philanthropic organizations.

Hemant Shah

CEO & Co-Founder

Archipelago

Hemant Shah is Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelago, a data risk platform that uses AI to digitize risk for large property owners to increase resiliency and lower their cost of risk. Previously, he Co-Founded Risk Management Solutions (RMS) as a graduate student at Stanford University, and led RMS until 2018, building the market-leading risk modeling firm serving the global insurance industry. Hemant is passionate about risk and resiliency, and serves on the Board of the social venture Build Change.

Daniel Spiegel

VP & Managing Director

Coldwell Banker Commercial

Daniel Spiegel is the Managing Director of Coldwell Banker Commercial. He leads the CBC network of over 2,000 commercial real estate professionals in over 123 offices in North America and 37 countries around the world. Spiegel oversees the strategy, growth and daily operations of the Coldwell Banker Commercial network, one of the most recognized brands in the real estate industry. Dan previously served in leadership roles at two publicly traded real estate firms as EVP, Operations for Colliers International in the U.S. and in a similar role at Grubb & Ellis Company. Passionate about people and adaptation to change, Dan is active in the CRE technology community, writes on the topic of the intersection of technology and real estate.

Steve Van Till

CEO & Founder

Brivo

Steve Van Till is Founder and CEO of Brivo. He holds numerous patents in the field of physical security and previously served in a variety of senior management roles in high technology companies spanning Web development, healthcare, and satellite communications. Steve is the author of The Five Technological Forces Disrupting Security, winner of the ASIS International 2017 Book of the Year Award. He currently serves as Chairman of the Standards Committee for the Security Industry Association (SIA), who awarded him the 2019 Lippert Memorial Award.

Thomas Walle

CEO & Co-Founder

Unacast

Thomas is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unacast, a human mobility data company committed to understanding how people move around on the planet. Sophisticated and data-driven commercial real estate professionals, retailers, researchers, analysts, and data scientists use the Real World Graph®, the most accurate understanding of human activity in the physical world through foot traffic data, neighborhood insights and migration patterns.